The 4400 Episode 3.8

A new drug starts making the rounds and turns out it’s produced from a 4400’s ability. The drug is called Blink and it causes hallucinations of a particular sort: it allows you the chance to resolve issues you’ve never dealt with properly. Tom and Diana are given gifts of cookies laced with the drug. Tom’s long-dead father appears to him and cannot leave until Tom and he have worked out their differences. Diana’s old fiancee shows up and cannot leave until she not only deals with her feelings for him, but also how their relationship has affected all the others that came after, including her current relationship with Marco. The grandson of the 4400 who can produce this drug from her hands has slipped the drug to dozens of people, and to Tom and Diana, as a “gift.” But he didn’t forsee the problem with this drug: Some people see visions of people that terrify them (one victim saw her uncle who molested her when she was young) and commit suicide rather than deal with it.

Shawn and Isabelle, in the meantime, are going through a rough patch. Isabelle has decided the only way to make things right between them is to get married. Shawn and Richard try their best to convince her this is insane, and Shawn makes it clear that he’d rather die. Isabelle still won’t accept no for an answer. She explains in her matter-of-fact Isabelle way that she is going to have to make some tough choices soon. Whether to be good or evil, etc. And the only way she believes she’ll be able to choose correctly is if Shawn is by her side. And yet she still doesn’t get what evil really is. She thinks she’s choosing good by forcing Shawn to marry her. She thinks it makes sense that “the two most powerful people on earth” should be together. Richard has no idea what to do. She’s his daughter. So Shawn sneaks up during naptime, puts his hands on her, and sucks the life out of her. But she pops back to life. With a sigh, she says “Happy now? Guess we’re getting married after all.”

Damn, you immortal bitch.